Sentences with phrase «from academic failure»

It was recovery from academic failure.

When the district board and the superintendent fired Ballona High School principal Harriet Alonzo, it must have stunned anyone who had witnessed how her leadership had turned the school around.1 In just three years, from 2003 to 2006, with coaching from UCLA's School Management Program, Alonzo fashioned a leadership team of teachers who worked with her to transform Ballona High School from an academic failure to a smashing success.

(«Recovery» refers to recovery from academic failure — not from the hurricane, a common misperception.)

The RSD had been established in 2003 to manage «recovery» from academic failure, not from Hurricane Katrina, as the name is sometimes taken to imply, but had seized only five New Orleans schools before Katrina.

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But the most important lesson he brought with him from the academic world, he says, is that humans learn far more from failure that they do from success.

One can think of many other ways in which shame follows from our failure to measure up to familial, societal, academic, ethical, psychological, and perhaps especially, «religious» standards of performance.

Farrington believed that these narratives about failure were especially resonant among students from low - income families, who were more likely to be anxious or insecure about the possibility of failing in an academic context.

No fewer than 408 students of the University of Ibadan have been asked to withdraw from the university for failure to meet the minimum academic requirements...

«I think that there are a lot of advisers out there who suffer from a failure of imagination in two ways: One, they can't imagine a life outside of academics; and two, if they can imagine a life outside of academics, they don't have the resources or information required to help their students find that place.»

Many academic institutions, Kaufman adds, show «a disregard that runs from the top of the organization to the bottom,» and safety failures rarely damage powerful professorial careers involving large grants.

Unfortunately, few academic programs develop these skills in a systematic way; this failure hinders students from landing industrial jobs.

Departing from the decades of research that have been done on the factors that contribute to failure, she examines the factors and structure of family life and classroom environment that contribute to academic achievement.

True to promise, the authors deliver compelling stories of students once on the brink of academic failure who have thrived in four small schools, all based on principles from the Coalition of Essential Schools.

The RSD had been established in 2003 to manage «recovery» from decades of academic failure but had taken over only five schools before Katrina.

Early reading success or failure is highly predictive of a child's academic trajectory: one out of six kids who are not reading proficiently by third grade will not graduate from high school on time.

«Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction took the first step Thursday toward withholding up to $ 175 million in federal funds from Milwaukee Public Schools because of the district's failure to meet yearly academic progress targets required under law.»

«We know by looking at the failure rates in kindergarten and first grade that many of these students are coming from social environments that haven't adequately prepared them for academic success,» he adds.

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

They benefit from the freedom to explore new ideas without fear of failure or the stress of grades, and regular exposure to new experiences can also increase their cognitive flexibility, preparing them for academic challenges.

Fourteen percent of Michigan's charters are both low - performing and do little to improve student achievement, according to Stanford University's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes; while just one of the 11 charters shut down in 2015 - 2016 were closed because of academic failure, according to data from the Wolverine State's Department of Education.]

However, it could also stem from improvements in the out - of - school circumstances of American children most at risk of academic failure.

Taking cues from the failure of the voucher system in New Orleans, where state money came with additional regulations, Texas would continue to allow private and religious schools academic freedom.

The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it factors in parental donations when determining school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

At - risk children — poor children, children at risk of school failure because of behavioral, emotional or academic issues — benefit more from effective teachers and effective teaching than children who are not at risk (Hanushek et al. 2005).

Failure to exhibit required dispositions, not teaching practices, accounted for most all the students who had to be removed from student teaching during the 2008 - 09 academic year.

There's a myth that persists in education for both parents and teachers: That heading to suburban schools somehow insulates you from hardship, instability and academic failure.

Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading — from the International Dyslexia Association (Executive Summary) «Reading difficulties are the most common cause of academic failure and underachievement.

Implications The findings reported here reflect the perceptions of one group of students who moved from patterns of academic failure to academic success.

Emphasizing structure and organization helps remove roadblocks that prevent successful learning, such as slower processing speeds, inconsistent spelling and grammar, difficulty maintaining focus and concentration, and feelings of failure and anxiety resulting from past academic and social struggles.

I wonder if the death threats and the board bannings and the tens of thousands of acts of defamation and the threats to get academic researchers fired from their jobs and the failure of «experts» in the field like Jack Bogle and Bill Bernstein and Larry Swedroe and Scott Burns to speak up in opposition to the use of these tactics might have anything to do with that, Pink.

Why does a rational discussion basedon a clear point of discussion - the failure of academics to even perceive the issue well enough to make a competent survey - attract wack jobs from both sides of this?

Support for the Danish and Swedish academic opposition to the new, lax legislation on wind turbine noise being concocted in Copenhagen has been coming from a number of noise engineers, acousticians, doctors, psychologists and nurses in the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. who have expressed in conferences and in the media their concern about the failure of governments to address properly the wind farm health problem.

Poverty, living in homes and / or communities in which violence, drugs, and other negative risk factors are present, abuse, violent or delinquent behavior, low self - efficacy, academic failure, truancy / suspension from school, avoidance of reading or other «academic» endeavors, depression, short attention span, withdrawal, lack of appropriate social skills, anger, substance use, aggression, sexual activity / teen pregnancy, and grief

Psychology experts advise parents to focus on how a child can recover from failures rather than dwelling on a child's academic struggles.

The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.

Broader and longer - term benefits also accrue from improvements in social relations with others and reductions in delinquency, antisocial behavior, school dropout, academic failure, and mental health problems.

The above diagram, taken from Dr. Gottman's The Science of Trust, displays his findings on the dynamics of loyalty and betrayal and their deep role in predicting the success or failure of our most intimate relationships.Acclaimed by professors and scientists as an «encyclopedic volume» with «authoritative and profound insights into the inner workings of relationships,» the book was nonetheless meant for «the academic, the researcher, the clinician... the game theorist and the mathematician.»

A small percentage of antisocial children grow up to become adults with antisocial personality disorder, and a greater proportion suffer from the social, academic, and occupational failures resulting from their antisocial behavior.

Removing children from early learning environments also stigmatizes young individuals, contributing to numerous adverse social and educational outcomes.4 Research shows that young children who are suspended or expelled are more likely to experience academic failure and hold negative attitudes toward school, which contributes to a greater likelihood of dropping out of school and incarceration.5